Getting "Device or resource busy" error when trying to read from raw device.

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Issue

  • Getting "Device or resource busy" error when trying to read from raw device.
# dd if=/dev/raw/raw8 of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=1
dd: opening `/dev/raw/raw8': Device or resource busy

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6
  • raw device

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